Week 33 - Yikes!

When Your Normal Week Becomes Stressful

This week was intense. It's the little things that turn into big things. Like pain and cramping - not good feelings to feel when pregnant at anytime. Or what about picking out the paint color for the babies room, nothing too boring or too stimulating right?! How about nesting when you really shouldn't be moving all that furniture or staying up way too late and then dealing with spotting and blood clots - hello stress!

So Sunday was pretty normal to start, we went to church and then had a meeting afterward. Afterward however things got interesting and kind of went from there. I cancelled my mentorship meeting due to intense pain and cramping and slept for four hours. Monday Raymond and I picked up the paint for the babies room, then after he went to work I did dishes, tidies up the house, moved everything into baby O's room and stayed up until my husband got home from work. I totally overdid it and stayed up way too late. Tuesday I woke up to some spotting and clots and so after my shower it was off to emergency to get a stress test done to make sure the baby was doing well. I got there at 10:30 AM and walked out at 3:15 PM as nobody was checking on me and the baby was happy according to the stress test. The medical professional weren't too impressed but I figured the blood and clots came from moving my house furniture around all by myself and parking was really starting to rack up. It's interesting how you can just walk out of the hospital without anyone noticing your departure. I guess it helps to not be in a hospital gown.

My husband Raymond has been working his tail off prepping and painting the nursery and all of the babies furniture. Everything has to be white because I chose 'Wild Watermelon' as my wall color and let me tell you I HATE IT as it looks florescent orange. I have shed many tears over it as it was supposed to be a beautiful (but obviously bright) coral color that I thought would be gorgeous in a baby girl's nursery. WAY TOO BRIGHT AND STIMULATING!

The rest of the week was great because I got to work more with the new nanny I'm training and even though emotionally it's really tough to transition because I love these kids so much but I love that I get to know this girl who will be taking over my job (that's so much more than a job) and so I won't be worrying how the kidlets will be doing with her. I get to train her for a whole month. I'm so grateful to my boss for that opportunity as well as the fact that I need to work with someone as I am having a lot of dislocations, pain and discomfort in these last few weeks of pregnancy.

We have two baby names picked out. One means Protected by God and the other means, From the Healing Vine.

This was also our SHOPPING week. We got the paint (like I wrote about above), we picked up the carseat, diapers and discussed wipes. We couldn't agree on a crib so we went to IKEA and came away empty handed (but we already have a bassinet so you'll have something to sleep in when you arrive). Lastly the paint caused a lot of tears and grief and so we also went back to the paint store and chose a soft pink color but decided to wait to change it as I was swinging back and forth like a bungy jumper bobbing up and down after the initial jump. In the end we kept the "coral" and changed the light bulbs and fixture so now it looks proper - goodbye flourescent orange!

Keep looking for the healing and sunshine!
Love you friend,
Laura